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Those who "invented decimalization" wanted to take the so-called "economic rents" that MMs and specialists were undeservedly keeping and shift them to investors. It just happened so that scalpers of those days also used to get chunks of those rents and now can't. That was simply a side effect...

Hmmm, weird. What's your source? I'd like to took into it a bit more.

Dude, do you understand the concept of terrorism insurance? Or even plain insurance for that matter??? You have a house, it burns down. There's no way you can replace the original/negative of that picture you posted on the web and it sure has a lot of sentimental value to you. But you buy...

I might be going out on a limb here, but I've been thinking about this issue lately and I'm wondering, shouldn't a cleverly constructed position in derivatives do the trick? I'm thinking smth like a long term straddle maybe... Any thoughts?

Could that somehow have to do with what/how you think??? :D Just kidding.

Not really. At least not so far. As long as the underlying forces that made me look at these windows remain in place, I don't see why I would shift them. I'll PM you in a sec. V.

Without revealing more than I'd like to, I can say that your summary is relatively close to what I did. I had expectations as to what holding period would work best (e.g. the likelihood of trading with an informed/uninformed trader varies under certain special conditions with the time of the...

I had a hypothesis that those times would be best given the microstructural evidence of prior studies and the theories of how information is incorporated into prices etc etc. (e.g. a number of studies show that the overwhelming majority of daily returns are attained within the first few hours of...

I only trade at two certain time windows during the day comprising about 20 minutes total. Those windows were chosen for their particular properties. Seems to work quite well, thank God :D. And I don't have to spend hours and hours staring at the screen.

<i> You of course aware that Russians are the major population of Crimea? If you don't believe me - read it here http://www.iccrimea.org/population.html As of year 1989 Russians 1,629,542 Ukrainians 625,919 You want to kick 1.6 Mil people out? People whos predecessors fought and died...

Machina, dude, I don't have time to dwell on all the tiny details, but let's just say that there are as many histories as there are historians. I am sure if you, if only just for a second, part with the brainwashed Russian part of yourself and dig a bit deeper, you'd see that you ignited all...

I agree on all your points. I too thought it would end much worse. And obviously you can't set precedents of giving in to terrorists demands. But in this particular situation, Russia is guilty of having triggered the whole thing and if they did back off, I don't think it would have been such...

I think 3 was the wisest choice. You guys (since you are obviously Russian) have no business in Chechnya. Let's be honest about it, it all comes down to oil. Don't you have freaking enough of it??? Had I seen my town distroyed, my relatives and friends abused/killed, the places where I...

I'm not sure it could have been done better, but I agree the cost was very high... What they could have done better is keep the public a bit more in the loop. Trying to cover things up didn't help make the operation more successful. Honestly though, unless they could have used a less...

Of course one can be successful, but the odds are not as favorable as they could have been.

My point exactly. The traders of non-mini futures have access to the order flow and can then place informed trades in minis. So, keltner, wake up dude, those globex terminals are ON the floor.

... saw a study recently. I won't give out much info on it b/c one of the co-authors of it is also an ET member and he can do a better job of it. But basically it showed that only on-the-floor e-mini traders trade well (b/c they see the order flow), the off-the-floor traders are constantly...

Shut up, moron. I don't see a single reason why your profane ass would ever assume that anything I said was not well-thought-through enough to deserve being posted. You obviously type first then think (if ever). If I did post my calls, you'd be the first PM-ing me for more, idiot.

Can someone who has option quotes tell me please how much (approximately) a straddle in MSFT (or some other large stock, like CI, if there are options on it) would cost, say 100 contracts on each side (as close to at-the-money as possible). Please break it down by the premiums/fees etc. Thanks...